Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
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Joel chapter 3 says, I think it's verse 10 says, let the weak say I am strong. Say that with me. Let the weak say I am strong. The reason he had to say that is when you need to say it is when you're least likely to say it. The reason it needed to be a command is because the times when it's the most effective in our life is when we're not prone to make that kind of confession or declaration. It's easy when, you know, when you've had this miracle and that miracle to stand up and say, I just feel so strong right now. I feel so mighty in God. And there are times where it just feels, I just feel that. I've been in situations where it just seemed like, boom, boom, boom, miracles happen here, there, and there. And I just feel so strong and powerful in the Lord, in the Lord. But there are other times, man, where it's, there's a fight going on and it's a struggle. …
… And they would sing this song growing up. And now let the weak say I am strong. Let the poor say I am rich because of what the Lord has done. Do you imagine being nine years old? we'd be driving home from church and I'm like, Dad, we've got to change up the personnel. And now, let the weak say I am strong. And they always stood with me. They always stuck with me because it was so terrible. But also, I hated the feeling that it was like, yeah, Jesus, you're so good. Like, why did I feel presence? Why did I feel peace? Why did I resonate with that line so much? Because when you're in grace, the weak become strong. And he says, you then, my son, be strong in the grace, not strong on your own, not strong in your power, not strong in what you can do. No, my Bible says I can do all things through grace that strengthens me. Watch what he says in John 15. …
… Wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near. Let them come up, beat your plowshares into swords, your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong. the Lord is I don't mind if somebody's just trying to encourage himself and they just make up positive things to you know I'm going to succeed I know I've failed but I'm going to succeed I think that's healthy I don't mind it at all in fact it just makes you more pleasant to be around but when God says let the weak say I am strong he has opened up a realm of grace a realm of empowerment that is released to you the moment you speak what he said to speak. In other words, strength becomes the reality when it's declared. You know, I understand there's been a lot of abuses in the confession. I understand that. But it doesn't erase the reality. It's in the Bible. I know that we don't like abuses, like the abuses in some of the confession streams. …